Motivational Quotes

Love

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

10.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

11.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

12.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

13.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

14.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

15.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

16.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

18.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

19.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

20.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

21.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

22.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

23.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

24.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

25.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

26.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

27.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

29.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

30.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

31.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

32.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

33.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

34.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

35.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

36.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

37.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

38.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

39.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

40.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

41.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

42.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

43.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

44.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

46.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

47.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

48.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

49.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.